Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
Astrid Söderbergh Widding | |
Birth Date: | 27 May 1963 |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Workplaces: | Stockholm University |
Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding (born 27 May 1963) is a Swedish film studies scholar. She is Professor of film studies and Rector (i.e. Vice-Chancellor) of Stockholm University since 2013. Söderbergh Widding is a board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former President of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, and a columnist in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. She earned her PhD in 1992 at Stockholm University with a dissertation on Andrei Tarkovsky. She was elected as a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014 and became a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2015.[1] [2]
In 2023, she was appointed chair of the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation.[3]